Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real marvel of "The Last Round-Up" is that a tune so true to the old cowboy song-tradition should have been written, not by a cowboy, but by a hard-working popular songwriter, a South Weymouth, Mass., boy who went to California when he was 18, got a liking for cowboy songs and stories when he was touring the cattle country as fiddler in a small dance orchestra. Billy Hill learned then that the real cowboy songs are mostly slow and nostalgic, that with a few exceptional cona ti yi yonpy, yonpy ya's, herders sang to quiet...
China's militarists last week again had China's bankers on the run. The famed budget of Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong-a Chinese marvel because it balanced last year for the first time in the history of the Republic (TIME. Jan. 2)- teetered as the Government admitted a $10,000,000 current deficit and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek demanded of his brother-in-law, Dr. Soong, an additional $18,000,000 to pay his troops...
...gentle propaganda for Springfield citizens and the conservative trustees who must approve his every purchase Director Josiah P. Marvel also borrowed for his opening from dealers, private collectors and the College Art Association a fine group of paintings and drawings by U. S. and European modernists...
...John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long Times-Picayune, used strong language in an effort to rouse the lethargic Senators. Last week she made public a reply from one of them. Kentucky's Democratic Marvel Mills Logan, whose colleagues call him Colonel, telegraphed...
...work of art, an orchid is a masterpiece. A piece of the world's rarest single orchid plant bloomed last week in Summit, N. J. bearing three beautiful, pure white flowers. Two hard-bitten old orchid hunters, John Lager and Henry Hurrell, hastily summoned the Press to marvel...